Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
The Phalanx is designed to destroy guidance systems and control surfaces of the incoming missile.
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The warhead of a ballistic missile is too small and too well shielded for a vulcan machine gun to harm.
And if it did cause a premature detonation, there would be an explosion, not flames and smoke.
Vulcans are not made to shoot down ballistic missiles, they can't. They do not elevate anywhere near far enough to even hope to hit one.
As always, you are just vomiting up a bunch of nonsense and trying to completely confuse the issue. If you can not even keep straight what kind of missile a system is designed to hit, why are you even spouting off like this?
The 20mm vulcan machinegun has only a very tiny amount of explosive.
Not nearly enough to penetrate any warhead.
And this is typical of your posts, which shows that you do not have a single clue of what you are talking about and make it all up as you go.
The Phalanx, CIWS, SHORAD, Vulcan, whatever you want to call it does not use explosive shells at all. It uses a mix of tungsten and depleted uranium to cause a hard kinetic kill. There are no explosives in them at all.
And not only is it not a "machine gun", there are no explosives in the gun either.
But please, this is funny. Please provide your verifiable and reliable reference that the CIWS uses explosive rounds.
The Phalanx is designed to destroy guidance systems and control surfaces of the incoming missile.
Missiles intended to his a large, stationary base, likely are ballistic.
The only reason it is necessary to use the word "ballistic" was to differentiate from cruise missiles, which may be possible to shoot down with a phalanx. Ships can benefit from a phalanx because they will be attacked with cruise missiles. Stationary bases can not because they will be attacked with ballistic missiles that have too much shielding.
Wrong, a phalanx is a Vulcan machine gun, and can elevate directly vertical.
Vulcan machineguns most certainly can have explosive warheads, and since the other poster was suggesting their use, the point is to show why the use of explosive 20mm would not help.
And "phalanx, CIWS, SHORAD, vulcan" most certainly DO use explosives for propulsion.
What do you think they use instead, compressed air, electronic rail acceleration, etc?